The KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey for Nearby Emission-Line Galaxies
Caryl Gronwall (JHU)
The KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey (KISS) is a new objective-prism
survey for extragalactic emission-line objects. KISS combines many of the
features of previous slitless spectroscopic surveys that were carried out
with Schmidt telescopes using photographic plates with the advantages of
modern CCD detectors. It is the first purely digital objective-prism
survey, and it extends previous photographic surveys to much fainter flux
limits. In this talk, I will review the properties of the KISS sample and
discuss some of the scientific applications of the survey, including: 1) the
star formation rate density of the local universe, 2) the spectroscopic
properties of the sample, and 3) the spatial distribution of emission-line
galaxies.
